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Mastery and Performance Goals
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Mastery and performance goals organizes motivation by direction, quality, intensity, persistence and context rather than treating all effort as the same construct. The same behavior can arise from different mechanisms, so a general motivation technique cannot be promised to every person or setting; that boundary is retained when interpreting the “Mastery and Performance Goals” page.
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